general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/08/21 07:41
Subsystems: usb
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+1a01783ea233350598b5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 7d21h, last: 1h24m
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45de1f5c assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe 2026/08/19 02:48 2026/08/19 02:48 2026/08/19 03:37 1e72964b
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[syzbot] [usb?] general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe 0 (2) 2026/08/25 03:43
[PATCH] usb: typec: fix null-pointer-dereference in wcove_typec_probe() 4 (4) 2026/08/21 15:19
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe 2 syz, C 5 4d16h 7d11h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/17 17:39

Sample crash report:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5912 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:wcove_typec_probe+0xdb/0x780 drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/wcove.c:621
Code: 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 af 05 00 00 48 8d 7d 08 4d 89 af 88 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 7f 05 00 00 49 8d bf 90 00 00 00 48 8b 6d 08 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002f6faf8 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff8880226c1000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff888014243883 R11: 000000000000001f R12: ffffffff904a7ea8
R13: ffff8880226c1010 R14: ffff8880142438c0 R15: ffff888014243838
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888096982000(0063) knlGS:00000000f67e5b40
CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000032e24008 CR3: 000000004e2f1000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 platform_probe+0x106/0x1d0 drivers/base/platform.c:1507
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x210/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 device_driver_attach+0xd1/0x220 drivers/base/dd.c:1203
 bind_store+0xf4/0x190 drivers/base/bus.c:267
 drv_attr_store+0x74/0xb0 drivers/base/bus.c:125
 sysfs_kf_write+0xf2/0x150 fs/sysfs/file.c:145
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3e0/0x5f0 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x6af/0x1050 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:79 [inline]
 __do_fast_syscall_32+0x13a/0x8b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:291
 do_fast_syscall_32+0x32/0x70 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:316
 entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e
RIP: 0023:0xf6feefec
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xf6feefc2.
RSP: 002b:00000000f67e550c EFLAGS: 00000292 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000004
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 0000000080000400
RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:wcove_typec_probe+0xdb/0x780 drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/wcove.c:621
Code: 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 af 05 00 00 48 8d 7d 08 4d 89 af 88 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 7f 05 00 00 49 8d bf 90 00 00 00 48 8b 6d 08 48
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002f6faf8 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff8880226c1000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff888014243883 R11: 000000000000001f R12: ffffffff904a7ea8
R13: ffff8880226c1010 R14: ffff8880142438c0 R15: ffff888014243838
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888096a82000(0063) knlGS:00000000f67e5b40
CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f45dd833708 CR3: 000000004e2f1000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	48 c1 ea 03          	shr    $0x3,%rdx
   4:	80 3c 02 00          	cmpb   $0x0,(%rdx,%rax,1)
   8:	0f 85 af 05 00 00    	jne    0x5bd
   e:	48 8d 7d 08          	lea    0x8(%rbp),%rdi
  12:	4d 89 af 88 00 00 00 	mov    %r13,0x88(%r15)
  19:	48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rax
  20:	fc ff df
  23:	48 89 fa             	mov    %rdi,%rdx
  26:	48 c1 ea 03          	shr    $0x3,%rdx
* 2a:	80 3c 02 00          	cmpb   $0x0,(%rdx,%rax,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	0f 85 7f 05 00 00    	jne    0x5b3
  34:	49 8d bf 90 00 00 00 	lea    0x90(%r15),%rdi
  3b:	48 8b 6d 08          	mov    0x8(%rbp),%rbp
  3f:	48                   	rex.W

Crashes (12):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/25 03:42 upstream 66498c75b4f8 614e416a .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/17 13:07 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/17 13:07 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/17 10:17 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/17 10:16 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/17 09:11 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/17 07:31 upstream dcb68831eac7 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/18 02:41 linux-next 4477a78374a5 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/18 02:34 linux-next 4477a78374a5 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/18 02:33 linux-next 4477a78374a5 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/18 01:32 linux-next 4477a78374a5 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
2026/08/18 01:29 linux-next 4477a78374a5 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce general protection fault in wcove_typec_probe
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.